KVM: x86: Improve thread safety in pit

There's a race condition in the PIT emulation code in KVM.  In
__kvm_migrate_pit_timer the pit_timer object is accessed without
synchronization.  If the race condition occurs at the wrong time this
can crash the host kernel.

This fixes CVE-2014-3611.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Honig <ahonig@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c b/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
index 518d86471b76f0be7460c6e038755a18083b26b4..298781d4cfb44b7c6d6536d6d2779ada2eeb150a 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
@@ -262,8 +262,10 @@ void __kvm_migrate_pit_timer(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
                return;
 
        timer = &pit->pit_state.timer;
+       mutex_lock(&pit->pit_state.lock);
        if (hrtimer_cancel(timer))
                hrtimer_start_expires(timer, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);
+       mutex_unlock(&pit->pit_state.lock);
 }
 
 static void destroy_pit_timer(struct kvm_pit *pit)